Hey everyone, today it's my turn to blog. The two-weeks of intensive Young Leaders Summer School Programme is coming to and end.
To begin the day, we were split into three different groups for lectures. Melissa, Ben, Jing Yi and I was attending the Inner & Outer World Triva lecture. For me it was very interesting, we got to know more general knowledge about the different discoveries and inventions through a short quiz that we never really heard before or learned. But we manage to answer most of the questions correctly through guessing. For the rest, they had a lecture on Ethics. They was split into small groups to argue on a topic given to them and had to present their point at the end.
Next, we went over to the Harold White Lecture Theatre. The talk was about Taking the Fib out of Fibonacci. To me it was very extraordinary because the lecturer showed us many videos that is related to mathematics and how different methods of getting the answer out. He mentions this quote "People lie, numbers don't. But people use numbers to lie." This relates back to leadership, if one leader misuse their authority of doing something that is bad for the group or community. It will very soon be expose to the public and perhaps might cause lots of conflict between the group members. So one leader must stay true to him/her self to get respect from people that follows you.
After the delicious BBQ Lunch, we went down to Leonardo DaVinci Exhibition held at Queensbridge Square. It was slightly similar to the one held at the Singapore Science Center early this year. This was my first time, and i agree with Wei Jie that this exhibition taught us many of his works that inspires us and many people around the world. He was not only an artist but also a mathematician and a scientists and Ms Tan said his imagination comes first before mathematics and the rest of the subjects. I totally agree with this sentence and this is why he is so successful now even he is gone.
The Culture Night was one of the best activities held. All the Singaporeans came together to sing some National Day songs with some dance to accompany with it. When everybody sang the songs it reminded us that we must treat each other equally. Quote from the pledge "Regards of Race, Language or Religious to build a Democratic Society". We cannot take things for granted and appreciate the things around us.
Tomorrow will be the last day of this summer school, hope that many experience and friends were made through this two weeks. Not forgetting that it's the beginning for us to become successful leaders in the future. Good Night!
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The BBQ lunch was nice but too much of meat food and couldn't eat veggie as i was too full. Later we went to the leonardo da vinci exhibition. i don't really enjoy it as the exhibit less than i thought but however from this i know that da vinci was a genius.
ReplyDeleteAt night we have our cultural night which all the singaporeans unite and sing some national day songs. I am impressed by Jing Yi who went up to do a remix version of wushu. Even though he does not learn what he was performing, he did pretty well with dancing, showing of wushu and singing.
Well for mt group we went to the ethic lecture. I think what the lecturer said about looking at different views of a problem or a arguement is very important as if we look at only one side of an arguement, you will not be able to see the bigger picture and you will not be able to solve the arguement or problem as you are only looking at a single side.
ReplyDeleteWell i think the cultural night was awesome as i went up to the stage and sang with Jing Yi at the last moment and i think it went off pretty well. If i did not went up to participate i will really miss out a lot.
Well thats about it. Bye guys.
"leader misuse their authority of doing something that is bad for the group or community. It will very soon be expose to the public and perhaps might cause lots of conflict between the group members."
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above statement. I think we have discussed this before after the Nova cinema. Deception is something a leader should never do. Putting ouselves in the followers shoes I believe knowing that we have been lied to is never a good thing. And the truth will definitely come out someday and the longer the lie is the more hurt it brings to the follower.
I feel that the cultural night was fun! Everyone was really high and I think we all had fun performing. Singapore is a country where we have racial harmony and I feel that we shouldn't take it for granted.
That's all I wanna say. Good night!
I felt that the Cultural Night was indeed very fun! I not only enjoyed my own performance but others did fantastically well too, i've learnt to understand other people's culture and especially the Aboriginal Culture for it is the native's way of life. The mentors also went an extra mile to plan such a wonderful event for us and i think that as leaders we really should be fully prepared to execute whatever plans we have in mind.
ReplyDeleteOh and i wish to thank everyone again for the encouragement you gave me. Because going up there to perform and represent Singapore in the "catwalk" was indeed very pressuring. Especially since i did not learnt fists and i had to do it impromptu, still i did enjoy myself and thank you everyone!